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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background.

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background.

Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • upper figure on platform
  • lower figure below

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of two figures. The upper figure wears a blue sleeveless top and dark pants, standing with arms bent at the elbows in a pose suggesting readiness or confidence. The lower figure is a brown-colored character with dark hair, wearing a dark blue outfit with visible patterns, positioned below the upper figure. The background consists of light beige and white tones with horizontal blue and brown bands. The image has a grainy, blocky texture typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070825202307396635758

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue sleeveless top brown figure
  • pixelated character standing
  • beige background blue bands
  • low-resolution digital art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • blue sleeveless top
  • dark pants
  • arms bent at elbows
  • brown figure
  • dark blue outfit
  • dark hair
  • light beige background
  • horizontal blue bands
  • horizontal brown bands
  • grainy texture

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070825202307396635758
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93e73ca9d9437529064203ad1e695f542766fe3376653cf2b660667ef2c9e5a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
93e73ca9d9437529
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 08:07 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000497

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,170 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 821

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • posing

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • beige
  • white
  • dark blue
  • dark gray

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • upper figure on platform
  • lower figure below

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated depiction of two figures. The upper figure wears a blue sleeveless top and dark pants, standing with arms bent at the elbows in a pose suggesting readiness or confidence. The lower figure is a brown-colored character with dark hair, wearing a dark blue outfit with visible patterns, positioned below the upper figure. The background consists of light beige and white tones with horizontal blue and brown bands. The image has a grainy, blocky texture typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in a blue outfit standing on a platform with a brown figure below, against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070825202307396635758

Metadata Supported By Image

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Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated character standing
  • beige background blue bands
  • low-resolution digital art

Objects

  • platform

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

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Subjects

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  • character

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  • arms bent at elbows
  • brown figure
  • dark blue outfit
  • dark hair
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:07 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20070825202307396635758
Archive entry
20070825202307396635758.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070825202307396635758.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070825202307396635758.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016